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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917' [67] (76/432)
The record is made up of 1 volume (214 folios). It was created in 1917. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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THE TIGEIS—ROUTE HIE
67
Inter
mediate
distance
Miles
Left Bank
no steamer seems to have penetrated to this part of the
river.
Tel esh-Sha'ir, important village. 200 houses of Jebur
Arabs and some 20 shops (1910). There is no Turkish
official here, but an Arab sheikh is responsible for the safety
of rafts, collecting a due of 1 to 1-| from each. The
place is a river port, from which grain brought from
Shemamlik, 20 m. ENE., is shipped. This grain is believed
to come from the plain of Erbil, which extends about 20 m.
between Shemamlik and Erbil town to NE. In an ordinary
year about 1,000 rafts, carrying 12,000 tons of grain, leave
Tel esh-Sha'ir for Baghdad. A1 1 Q • " 1 ■ 1
and yq - barley.
About r 9 o is said to be wheat
Hasan Tash village; 100 houses of Jebur, about f m.
from river opposite island.
Dnweizeh village (50 houses of Jebur, 1910).
cliffs extending along bank about 1 m.
Low stone
Sunken rocks near bank, making troubled water, Channel
follows 1. bank (1910).
Large rapid between 1. bank and island.
Mouth of the Great Zab Eiver (Zab el-Kebir). Its con
fluence with the Tigris is called the Makhlat.
Just inside the mouth of the Zab are islands. Tel Keshaf,
a comparatively high eminence, appears to be situated on
the 1. bank some 2 or 3 m. up-stream. The Great Zab, even
in late summer, brings down a great volume of water, and
its stream is much increased after rain or the melting of the
snows. Its waters are very clear, almost bright green, and
enter the Tigris with a rapid .current.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume III, Central Mesopotamia with Sourthern Kurdistan and the Syrian Desert (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, January, 1917), covering the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad and Fellūjeh [Fallujah] to Mosul and Meskeneh [Maskanah], the Lesser Zāb, the country east of the Tigris towards the Persian frontier, and the routes running westward from the Euphrates valley across the Syrian Desert. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, and appears to be based on official and unofficial publications and maps which are cited in a bibliographical section in the volume. This volume was supplemented with corrections and additions in June 1918 (see IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/5).
The volume includes a note on confidentiality, a title page, 'Note', 'Abbreviations'. There is a page of 'Contents' which includes the following sections:
- Introduction;
- River Routes (The Tigris and the Lesser Zāb, The Euphrates);
- Land Routes (The Tigris Valley with Region to East, The Euphrates Valley, Connexions between Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, The Syrian Desert);
- Gazetteer of Towns;
- Bibliographical Note;
- Transliteration of Names;
- Glossary;
- Appendix;
- Index;
- 'Sketch Map of Routes', which includes 'City Map of Baghdad' (f. 212) and 'Mesopotamia: Outline Map Showing Routes, Volume III' contained in a pocket.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (214 folios)
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This volume is arranged according to numbered routes. There is a page of contents and an alphabetical index. There are two maps housed in a pocket.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover, where the folio number is located on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also has an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. III. 1917'
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